A 17-GHz direct down-conversion mixer in a 47-GHz SiGe process

IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, RFIC, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 461-464

  Lynch, Michael W ^a,b   Holdenried, Chris D ^a,b   Haslett, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

CONVERSION-GAIN (CG);

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0041588985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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